Hews vs Null - What's the difference?
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(hew)
To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
* Shakespeare
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To shape; to form.
* Bible, Is. li. 1
* Alexander Pope
(US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with (to).
* 1905 , Albert Osborn, : A Biography ,
* 1998 , and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines , Collectors Press, Inc., ISBN 1-888054-12-3, page 103,
* 2008 , , Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-12990-8, page 28,
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*:King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."
(obsolete) hue; colour
(obsolete) shape; form
Destruction by cutting down.
* Spenser
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As a proper noun hews
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hews
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----hew
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) hewen, from (etyl) . See also (l).Verb
- Hew them to pieces; hack their bones asunder.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn .
- rather polishing old works than hewing out new
]Jennings & Graham, [http://books.google.com/books?id=I3UEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA428&dq=hewed page 428,
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.
- Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.
- Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties,
citation, page= , passage=Hewing to the old comedy convention of beginning a speech by randomly referencing something in eyesight, Homer begins his talk about the birds and the bees by saying that women are like refrigerators: they’re all about six feet tall and weigh three hundred pounds and make ice cubes. }}
Derived terms
* hewer * rough-hewEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew .
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.